John 6 Verses 30-33 

John 6:30 “They said therefore unto him, What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee? what dost thou work? 31 Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.” 

“They said therefore unto him, What sign showest thou then, that we may see, and believe thee?”  These are the same people who had followed the Lord when they saw all the miracles he had done, then had followed the Lord after that he had fed the multitude with the 5 barley loaves and two small fishes.  Thus, it would not have made any difference to them how many signs the Lord had shown them, for they still would not have believed. 

“Our fathers did eat manna in the desert; as it is written, He gave them bread from heaven to eat. 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven.”  The Jews held Moses as being a great prophet and believed he had given them the manna that they ate from heaven.  The truth is that Moses was a great prophet sent from God, however, the credit for the manna that was given to them to sustain them in all their wilderness journeys belonged to God.  It was God who gave them the manna, and it is God who gives us the true bread from heaven.  Manny times in the New Testament we see that the Lord used natural things to teach us spiritual lessons.  Bread is a natural product, whereas the “true bread from heaven” is spiritual food for the spiritual man.

“For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.”  The world, under consideration, is the same world in John 3:16, which is the world of God’s elect family.  The Lord identified himself here as the “true bread from heaven.”  It is He as the bread from heaven who gives life unto his elect world.

John 6 Verse 34-40 

John 6:34 “Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread. 35 And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst. 36 But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not. 37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. 38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. 39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. 40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”   

“Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give us this bread.”  If this statement stood by itself, a person might conclude that these people were desirous to believe and follow the Lord.  However, as we will see later, they did not believe and did not want to follow the Lord in his teachings to them.  These people were desirous of natural bread, but not spiritual bread. 

“And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.”  A person who comes to Jesus through the miraculous working of God in the spiritual birth and then believes the true gospel of Christ shall never hunger or thirst for a redeemer, for he knows he already has one.   

“But I said unto you, That ye also have seen me, and believe not.”  The Lord tells these people that had seen the miracles and had eaten of the bread that fed the multitude that they had seen him, yet did not believe.   

“All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.”  This verse is a great doctrinal assurance to the elect that the Father gave unto the Son before the foundation of the world.  First, we have the assurance that all that the Father gave to the Son will come to the Son in the new birth.  Next, we have the assurance that not a one of the elect would ever be cast out.   

“For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.”  The Lord assures us here that the covenant will of the Son is the same as the covenant will of the Father and that the Son came to fulfill that covenant will of the Father. 

“And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.”  This covenant will of the Father began with the Father giving to the Son a people to be saved from their sins with not a one of them being lost.  Next, the covenant will of the Father was that those given to the Son would be raised up again at the last day.  The word, again, implies two raisings up of the ones given to the Son.  The elect children given to the Son are raised from a state of being dead in trespasses and sins to a state of being born spiritually.  Moreover, the elect children given to the Son are to be raised from the death of their corporeal bodies to their bodies being changed and fashioned like the glorious body of Christ in the resurrection at the last day.  This covenant purpose of the Father is plainly stated for us in Rom. 8:29, 30 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”   

“And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”  When we see the Son through an eye of faith we have the assurance that we have everlasting life and that we will be raised up at the last day.                                                                                                       

John 6 Verses 41-51 

John 6:41 “The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven. 42 And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven? 43 Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves. 44 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. 46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father. 47 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life. 48 I am that bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” 

“The Jews then murmured at him, because he said, I am the bread which came down from heaven.  And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? how is it then that he saith, I came down from heaven?”  Again, we point out that these Jews had seen the miracles that Jesus had done and had eaten of the bread and fishes that Jesus fed to the multitude after blessing the 5 loaves and two fishes.  After they had seen all this, they still did not believe.  They did not believe in the virgin birth which was also prophesied in the Old Testament.  All that they could see was a natural man whom they believed was as they were and was born by natural generation.  To them Jesus was just the carpenter’s son.   

“Jesus therefore answered and said unto them, Murmur not among yourselves.  No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”  These Jews did not come to Jesus because they had not been drawn of the Father.  The Father draws his people unto Jesus through the miraculous working of the New Birth.  Jesus assures that those who have come to him through the Father’s drawing in the New Birth will be raised up at the last day.   

“It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me.”  Jesus tells us that all of the elect of God both have heard and learned of the Father and also come unto Him.  This is further taught us in Heb. 8:8-13: “For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.  For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.  In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.”  By writing His laws in our heart and in our mind, God teaches us to know the Lord and has irresistibly drawn us unto the Lord. 

“Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which is of God, he hath seen the Father.”  In one sense, the only one who has seen the Father with natural eyes is the Son.  However, in a spiritual sense those who have seen the Father through an eye of faith are those who have been born of God. 

“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life.”  This is one of several times in the writings of the Apostle John in which he affirms that the believer has everlasting life and that believing is the evidence of that life and not the cause of that life. 

“I am that bread of life.  Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.  This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.  I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”  Once again, the Lord assures us that He is that “living bread” and that the elect who are made to be partakers of that “living bread” shall live forever as he gave his life for that elect world and died on the cross to redeem them from their sins.